Bernard — The Charters of the Ahbeij of Duiske. 53 



ad uerbum fideliter exarata cum sigilloruiii nostroriun testimonici, nobis 

 recitanda ad maiorein fideni faciendaiii, m. . . . decreuimus. 



The date of the Inspeximus, which is in tiie usual form (see p. 64), is not 

 given, but tlie reference to the war in Wales would suggest that it was made about 

 1282, when Edward I subdued the Welsh. 



The seals of the four abbots have disappeared. Nelit (or Neath) and Kingsivood 

 were in Glamorganshire and Gloucestershire respectively. The Tintern Abbey here 

 mentioned was the elder Tintern in Monmouthshire. 



The abbot of Stanley, who appears in these documents as Visitor of the Irish 

 Cistercian houses in 1228, was a remarkable person. His name was Stephen dc 

 Lexinton, and he was a man of high character as well as of good family. He 

 entered the monastic life at the suggestion of Edmund Eich, archbishop of 

 Canterbury, whose disciple he was ; and having joined the Cistercian Order about 

 1221, he was very soon appointed abbot of Stanley in Wiltshire. In the year after 

 he acted as Visitor of the Cistercians in Ireland, that is, in 1229, he was elected 

 abbot of Savigny, an abbey near Coutances in the diocese of Avranches. On 

 6 December, 1213, he was elected abbot of Clairvaux, and among his many 

 activities while ruling that great monastery was the foundation of a house in Paris 

 for scholars of his order. He died some time after 1256.' 



The abbot of Citeaux was Gaidier, or Walter, and the abbot of Clairvaux 

 was Ralph (see p. 45). 



28. 

 Composition of dispute between E., bishop of Leighlin, W., archdeacon, 

 and the chapter of Leiglilin, of tlie one part, and the abbot and convent 

 of Duiske of the other part, through the mediation of the abbots of 

 Buildwas and Stanley, and John de Taunton, canon of St. Patrick's, 

 Dublin. The convent grants to the bishop of Leighlin for the time 

 being two carucates of land, near the manor of Eynnore, viz., one 

 carucate which the bishop formerly held from the convent of Killenny, 

 and the other caruoate extending by the Barrow and by the land 

 which William Crassus held from the monks of Killenny; and the 

 convent further grants to the chapter of Leighlin the tithes of these 

 two carucates with the church of Fynnore, which W., the archdeacon, 

 holds from the chapter : with the concurrence of S., abbot of Stanley, 

 Visitor-General of the Cistercian Order in Ireland. The convent to 

 be freed for ever from procurations and exactions, provided that they 

 erect a church in the said territory of KiUenny, which shall have a 

 secular chaplain with cure of souls, to be presented by them to the 

 bishop or archdeacon : the convent to have the tithes, the bishop of 

 Leighlin renouncing all further claims against the abbey of Duiske, 

 arising out of its absorption of Killenny. 



Dated at Fynnore, 6 June, 1228. 



' See D.N.B. s. v. ' Lexinton, Stephen de.' 



